with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson and Jeremy Paxman
Reports from PENNY
BUSTIN JAMES COX ,
MARGARET GILMORE , PETER MARSHALL
BILL NEELY , GUY MICHELMORE and MIKE STEWART plus Bob Friend 's view of life across the Atlantic, USA

Today's edition brings you Hot Seat - your chance to interrogate the people whose decisions affect your life.
If you want someone in the Hot Seat, write to Watchdog, BBCtv, Lime
Grove, London W12 7BJ or ring the Watchdog hotline: [number removed]

Join Robert Kilroy-Silk , his studio audience and guests as they discuss a topic that touches your life.

Why not set up your own Advice Shop?
Margo MacDonald offers some tips on how to get going.
Directed by JEREMY ORLEBAR
Produced by TONY MATTHEWS (e)

Phillip Schofield with programme news and your birthday greetings.

'By the shores of Gitchee Gumee '
Presenter Mike Amatt Guest Jane Hardy Story: Hiawatha by H. W. LONGFELLOW

(R)

with Gary Watson

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with Pattie Coldwell Bob Wellings and Eamonn Holmes including at
12.0 News and Weather

Live from Northern Ireland Tom and Debbie Greenwood bring the best of show business to your screens. On the stage of the Guildhall,
Londonderry, Tom introduces the best-known faces around while Debbie goes 'out and about' to see the sights of Derry.

with Martyn Lew ,is
Weather IAN MCCASKILL

Joan Langdon is visited by someone from her past. Daphne moves out.

A See-Saw programme (R)

with Selina Scott
Jeff Banks in Blackpool and Siobhan Mayer

starring
Ian Carmichael Belinda Lee
Kathleen Harrison Robert Helpmann
Nearly every family has its black sheep. In the case of the Frith family, it's son Willie - who steals a suitcase full of 11 notes.
That's OK by dad, because the whole family are crooks - the snag is, the notes are forged!
Wilberforce .MICHAEL BALFOUR Story and screenplay by JOHN BAINER Directed by JOHN PADDY CARSTAIRS 0 FILMS: page 27

Phillip Schofield - starting with:

The Amazing Adventures of Morph: The Day Morph Was Ill
(R)

with Stuart Bradley
Which animal could be said to have five hands? Join Stuart on the Caterpillar Trail to Cornwall, and spot some trees being planted in Weymouth.

Stan and Ollie call themselves Feather Brain and Rooster Man and try to catch a criminal in "Birds of a Feather"

by ALLAN AHLBERG Told for Jackanory by Victoria Wood with Martin Jarvis
Today: The Clockwork Mouse

The Pirate TV Station With the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor
Bill Oddie , Graeme Garden Jill Shilling
Written by BERNIE KAY Music by DAVE COOKE
Produced and directed by TERRY WARD (R)

with Nick Wilton Floella Benjamin Robert Harley and Sarah Mortimer
For sale! A fully working life-size model of the planet
Earth! It comes complete with six spare mountains and two billion gallons of extra sea water - apply to
Milton Keenze , c/o 2 The Avenue, Planet Zymatron.
Musical director STEVE BROWN Designer ANDREW PURCELL Production
DAVTD CRICHTON. TREVOR MCCALLUM

A serial in five parts by Sid Waddell

After a romantic Italian dinner, Jossy is challenged to a football contest against the Sorrento Salvos. The girls are delighted at the prospect of Italian advances while the Giants prepare their defences.
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Cyril Sneer's gas-guzzling Sneermobile comes up against the Raccoons' energy-saving Solar Coaster in a desperate race that will decide the future of the Evergreen Forest.

with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton
Weather John Kettley

Join Terry as he talks to people in the news, presents the best in entertainment and springs the occasional surprise.

Selina Scott meets fashion editor Nicola Jeal, 5ft 2in, and designer Amanda Streeter, 6ft 4in. Jeff Banks enjoys his little stick of Blackpool rock at the resort's hair and beauty show. Siobhan Mayer reports on clothes care.
With Jasmine Fadhli and Caryn Franklin
Assistant producer CLARE STRIDE producer ROGER CASSTLES BBC Pebble Mill

Revenge of the Nerd
Despite the slings and arrows, Cliffs outrageous fortune seems to give him a winning hand and sparks some harsh words at
Southfork. April begins to feel like the spy who was left out in the cold and Ray comes to a painful decision.
Written by CALVIN CLEMENTS JR Directed by LINDA GRAY
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Anne Robinson with your comments.
Producer VICKI MARRIOTT Please send letters to:
Points of View, BBCtv Centre London W12 8QT

by the Conservative Party

with Julia Somerville and Philip Hayton
Regional News; Weather

The Struggles of the Swan Take the sheer power and versatility of a top athlete. add the strength and endurance of a heavyweight boxer and somehow pack it all into the poised and graceful frame of a prima ballerina. Then you might just have someone who could rehearse and dance Swan Lake without injury.
Q.E.D. spent six weeks with the Northern Ballet Theatre to see just how far dancers have to punish their bodies before we can admire their seemingly effortless elegance on stage. With five of the company injured and dancing in considerable pain from the outset, it was going to be a real struggle to open at
Glyndebourne on schedule.... Narrated by Debbie Arnold Series editor DAVID FILKIN
Producer SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
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Introduced by Steve Rider Frank Bruno 's Return Britain's popular heavyweight Frank Bruno was back in action last night for the first time since being knocked out in his world title bid last July. His opponent at Wembley, James Tillis , is one of only three men to go the distance with Mike Tyson , but Bruno was aiming to dispatch him quickly and set up another title shot. Commentator
HARRY CARPENTER World Bowls from Bournemouth
Tonight's match in the Midland Bank Indoor Pairs Championship features
Scotland's ANGUS BLAIR and RICHARD CORSIE against
Australians DON PEOPLES and ROB PARELLA.
Climbing the Hill
It's over two years since Damon Hill, son of world champion Graham, took his first tentative steps in singleseater motor racing. Now that he's started his first full season in Formula 3,
Sportsnight again reports on his dreams of landing a Grand Prix drive.
Television presentation: Boxing BOB DUNCAN
(A BarrettIDuff promotion in association with FUs Jeans) Bowls KEITH PHILLIPS
Producer CHARLES BALCHIN Editor JOHN ROWLINSON

Jobless Not Worthless
As fans of EastEnders will know, Arthur has had a nervous breakdown because he is out of a job. Behind that fiction, what are the facts? How much psychological damage is being done to those on the dole?
Film editor PAUL SINCLAIR Producer JOHN TWITCHIN (e)